•How It’s Made - Episode 2• by Kim Walker
In this section we are going to mount the round pieces of Curly Maple on dowels. The forearm section will be mounted on the permanent ¾ in dowel that will be the backbone of the cue. This will insure that the butt never warps and will give the cue a consistent “hit” like all the cues I build. The butt sleeve will be temporally mounted on a sacrificial dowel so we can turn it on the lathe. The forearm is glued on the 30 in long dowel using gorilla glue. It foams and expands about 4 times and fills any small voids. This does not mean that there is foam inside the cue. It only foams where it escapes the glue joint. The butt sleeve is glued on the short dowel with 3 dots of super glue (CA) on each end
(Figure 3) Now that we have the forearm and butt sleeve tapered, we can cut the “V” grooves for the points. The grooves are cut using a large 90 degree “V” cutter. A special taper bar, that I designed and built, will be used to cut the proper shape and depth of the grooves.
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(Figure 2) After 24 hours, we can begin to work on the Curly Maple pieces. We will mount each one in the lathe and taper them using the butt taper bar. Each one will be turned to about 100 thousands over size. 29
(Figure 5) Sneaky Pete Mafia Magazine - September 2014
